GM Hikaru Nakamura secured his second straight Bullet Brawl and $400 after scoring 251 factors forward of GMs Jose Martinez and Daniel Naroditsky on Saturday. With this victory, Nakamura has taken his stay Bullet Brawl earnings to simply over $10,000 in a single 12 months.
Taking out the $100 greatest ladies’s prize was FM Anastasia Avramidou who completed 5 factors forward of Georgia’s IM Meri Arabidze, whereas Group Brawl common Cesar Frank Talledos Lagos gained one other version of the untitled enviornment.
The following Bullet Brawl will happen on Saturday, Could 11, 2024, at midday ET/18:00 CEST.
Standings
| Rank | Fed | Title | Identify | Username | Score | Rating |
| 1 | GM | Hikaru Nakamura | Hikaru | 3305 | 251 | |
| 2 | GM | Jose Martinez | Jospem | 3190 | 238 | |
| 3 | GM | Daniel Naroditsky | DanielNaroditsky | 3194 | 232 | |
| 4 | IM | Renato Terry | MITerryble | 3116 | 205 | |
| 5 | IM | Yoseph Taher | yosephtaher | 2977 | 194 | |
| 6 | GM | Matthias Bluebaum | Msb2 | 3051 | 187 | |
| 7 | GM | Vugar Rasulov | vugarrasulov | 2954 | 167 | |
| 8 | GM | Thomas Beerdsen | kleinebeer98 | 2943 | 158 | |
| 9 | GM | Emin Ohanyan | OhanyanEminChess | 2992 | 154 | |
| 10 | IM | Kacper Drozdowski | Kacparov | 2949 | 141 | |
| 11 | FM | Dmitry Goltsev | GoltsevDmitry2000 | 2860 | 131 | |
| 12 | GM | Tuan Minh le | wonderfultime | 3082 | 131 | |
| 13 | IM | Marcos Lianes | ulises2013 | 2898 | 114 | |
| 14 | GM | Nikolas Theodorou | NikoTheodorou | 3024 | 110 | |
| 15 | CM | Huseyin Deveci | hsd2016 | 2665 | 108 | |
| 16 | GM | Leon Mendonca | LionTheLeon_06 | 2856 | 108 | |
| 17 | FM | Faustino Oro | FaustinoOro | 2912 | 107 | |
| 18 | NM | Noah Kim | Naoki | 2776 | 105 | |
| 19 | CM | Eqor Baskakov | stollenmonster | 2820 | 104 | |
| 20 | GM | Jose Cardoso | TheBigBoss04 | 2892 | 103 |
the #bulletbrawl king 👑 pic.twitter.com/w84CE6w0HZ
— Chess.com (@chesscom) Could 4, 2024
Bullet Brawl has grow to be a money cow for the king, Nakamura has revamped $10,000 from the weekly arenas in a single 12 months. After saying his intent to play and stream the occasion on Twitter, Nakamura joined the all-titled lineup minutes earlier than the occasion started.
Stream beginning now for @chesscom‘s Bullet Brawl! Flip as much as see the battles go down!! https://t.co/8aLBKR31Tx pic.twitter.com/KacF1WTCjS
— Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) Could 4, 2024
The scorecard for the bullet titan was 69 wins, six attracts, and 6 losses. Of the wins, a number of vicious attacking efforts stand out. Towards Vietnam’s GM Tuan Minh Le, the American highlighted the e6-pawn as untenable and sacrificed a knight to capitalize. The sport has strategic similarities to “Dubov’s Immortal” from the Russian Championship Superfinal in 2020, although much less spectacular.
Whatever the openings chosen by Nakamura’s opponents, the 23-time victor launched kingside assaults each time he performed as White, usually resulting in checkmate in below 20 strikes. Try his video games in opposition to the French Protection and the Sicilian Protection: Dragon Variation under for contemporary attacking concepts.
One of many gamers who managed to stifle Nakamura’s run was the second-placed Martinez. Following an early win over Nakamura, the Mexico consultant stayed in contact with the lead and achieved one of many hardest duties in Bullet Brawl, ending forward of Naroditsky.
Martinez, who sits fourth on the all-time leaderboard, has a giant month forward as he’ll journey to Spain in June to face GM Vladimir Kramnik in “The Conflict Of Claims,” the place he’ll look to quash insinuations in opposition to his title.
The Conflict of Claims
On June 7-9, in Madrid, Spain, Vladimir Kramnik will battle Jose Martinez (Jospem) in a 36-game blitz match.
18 video games on a chess board.
18 video games on laptops.A combat for integrity and truthful play in chess.
See you in Spain. pic.twitter.com/E1Afsr9VG1
— GothamChess (@GothamChess) March 26, 2024
In July 2023, we reported that three issues in life have been sure: demise, taxes, and Nakamura Bullet Brawl victories. For now, this report nonetheless rings true.
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The video games from this week’s Bullet Brawl might be discovered right here.
Bullet Brawl is an thrilling new titled enviornment that options Chess.com’s prime bullet specialists and takes place weekly on Saturdays. The format is a two-hour enviornment with a 1+0 time management; the prize fund is $1,000.
Very similar to Titled Tuesday and Area Kings, Bullet Brawl usually options prime GMs, together with Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, Andrew Tang, Tuan Minh Le, and lots of extra!
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